<div style="margin-left:0%; margin-right:0%">
<div class="title">
THE BOOK OF<br/>
<span class=large>JUDGES</span>
</div>
<div class="subtitle">
CHAPTER 3
</div>
<div class="summary">
Israel intermarries with Canaanites, worships false gods, and is cursed—Othniel judges Israel—Israel serves Moab and is delivered by Ehud, who slays Eglon.
</div>
<div class="verse"><a name="1"></a>
<div id="judg/3/1" onclick='return toggleMarked(event, this)'>
&nbsp;&nbsp;1 <span class='smallcaps'>
Now</span> these <i>are</i> the nations which the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span> left, to prove Israel by them, <i>even</i> as many <i>of Israel</i> as had not known all the wars of Canaan;
</div>
</div>
<div class="verse"><a name="2"></a>
<div id="judg/3/2" onclick='return toggleMarked(event, this)'>
&nbsp;&nbsp;2 
Only that the generations of the children of Israel might know, to teach them war, at the least such as before knew nothing thereof;
</div>
</div>
<div class="verse"><a name="3"></a>
<div id="judg/3/3" onclick='return toggleMarked(event, this)'>
&nbsp;&nbsp;3 
<i>Namely,</i> <sup>a</sup><a href="judg/3/3a" mark="a" type="A" title="Josh. 13: 3.">five</a> lords of the Philistines, and all the Canaanites, and the Sidonians, and the Hivites that dwelt in mount Lebanon, from mount Baal-hermon unto the entering in of Hamath.
</div>
</div>
<div class="verse"><a name="4"></a>
<div id="judg/3/4" onclick='return toggleMarked(event, this)'>
&nbsp;&nbsp;4 
And they were to prove Israel by them, to know whether they would hearken unto the commandments of the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span>, which he commanded their fathers by the hand of Moses.
</div>
</div>
<div class="verse"><a name="5"></a>
<div id="judg/3/5" onclick='return toggleMarked(event, this)'>
&nbsp;&nbsp;5 
&#182; And the children of Israel <sup>a</sup><a href="judg/3/5a" mark="a" type="A" title="Ps. 106: 35.">dwelt</a> among the Canaanites, Hittites, and Amorites, and Perizzites, and Hivites, and Jebusites:
</div>
</div>
<div class="verse"><a name="6"></a>
<div id="judg/3/6" onclick='return toggleMarked(event, this)'>
&nbsp;&nbsp;6 
And they took their daughters to be their wives, and <sup>a</sup><a href="judg/3/6a" mark="a" type="B" title="TG Marriage, Interfaith.">gave</a> their daughters to their sons, and served their gods.
</div>
</div>
<div class="verse"><a name="7"></a>
<div id="judg/3/7" onclick='return toggleMarked(event, this)'>
&nbsp;&nbsp;7 
And the children of Israel did <sup>a</sup><a href="judg/3/7a" mark="a" type="B" title="TG Apostasy of Israel.">evil</a> in the sight of the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span>, and forgat the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span> their God, and <sup>b</sup><a href="judg/3/7b" mark="b" type="A" title="Judg. 4: 1.">served</a> <sup>c</sup><a href="judg/3/7c" mark="c" type="A" title="Hosea 2: 13.">Baalim</a> and the <sup>d</sup><a href="judg/3/7d" mark="d" type="R" title="HEB asheroth; fertility cult goddesses; TG Idolatry.">groves</a>.
</div>
</div>
<div class="verse"><a name="8"></a>
<div id="judg/3/8" onclick='return toggleMarked(event, this)'>
&nbsp;&nbsp;8 
&#182; Therefore the anger of the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span> was hot against Israel, and he sold them into the hand of Chushan-rishathaim king of Mesopotamia: and the children of Israel served Chushan-rishathaim eight years.
</div>
</div>
<div class="verse"><a name="9"></a>
<div id="judg/3/9" onclick='return toggleMarked(event, this)'>
&nbsp;&nbsp;9 
And when the children of Israel cried unto the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span>, the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span> raised up a <sup>a</sup><a href="judg/3/9a" mark="a" type="C" title="Neh. 9: 27; TG Deliverance.">deliverer</a> to the children of Israel, who delivered them, <i>even</i> Othniel the son of Kenaz, Caleb’s younger brother.
</div>
</div>
<div class="verse"><a name="10"></a>
<div id="judg/3/10" onclick='return toggleMarked(event, this)'>
&nbsp;&nbsp;10 
And the <sup>a</sup><a href="judg/3/10a" mark="a" type="B" title="TG God, Spirit of.">Spirit</a> of the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span> came upon him, and he judged Israel, and went out to war: and the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span> delivered Chushan-rishathaim king of Mesopotamia into his hand; and his hand prevailed against <sup>b</sup><a href="judg/3/10b" mark="b" type="A" title="Hab. 3: 7.">Chushan</a>-rishathaim.
</div>
</div>
<div class="verse"><a name="11"></a>
<div id="judg/3/11" onclick='return toggleMarked(event, this)'>
&nbsp;&nbsp;11 
And the land had rest forty years.  And Othniel the son of Kenaz died.
</div>
</div>
<div class="verse"><a name="12"></a>
<div id="judg/3/12" onclick='return toggleMarked(event, this)'>
&nbsp;&nbsp;12 
&#182; And the children of Israel did evil again in the sight of the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span>: and the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span> strengthened Eglon the king of Moab against Israel, because they had done evil in the sight of the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span>.
</div>
</div>
<div class="verse"><a name="13"></a>
<div id="judg/3/13" onclick='return toggleMarked(event, this)'>
&nbsp;&nbsp;13 
And he gathered unto him the children of Ammon and Amalek, and went and smote Israel, and possessed the city of palm trees.
</div>
</div>
<div class="verse"><a name="14"></a>
<div id="judg/3/14" onclick='return toggleMarked(event, this)'>
&nbsp;&nbsp;14 
So the children of Israel served Eglon the king of Moab eighteen years.
</div>
</div>
<div class="verse"><a name="15"></a>
<div id="judg/3/15" onclick='return toggleMarked(event, this)'>
&nbsp;&nbsp;15 
But when the children of Israel cried unto the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span>, the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span> raised them up a deliverer, Ehud the son of Gera, a Benjamite, a man lefthanded: and by him the children of Israel sent a present unto Eglon the king of Moab.
</div>
</div>
<div class="verse"><a name="16"></a>
<div id="judg/3/16" onclick='return toggleMarked(event, this)'>
&nbsp;&nbsp;16 
But Ehud made him a dagger which had two edges, of a cubit length; and he did gird it under his raiment upon his right thigh.
</div>
</div>
<div class="verse"><a name="17"></a>
<div id="judg/3/17" onclick='return toggleMarked(event, this)'>
&nbsp;&nbsp;17 
And he brought the present unto Eglon king of Moab: and Eglon <i>was</i> a very fat man.
</div>
</div>
<div class="verse"><a name="18"></a>
<div id="judg/3/18" onclick='return toggleMarked(event, this)'>
&nbsp;&nbsp;18 
And when he had made an end to offer the present, he sent away the people that bare the present.
</div>
</div>
<div class="verse"><a name="19"></a>
<div id="judg/3/19" onclick='return toggleMarked(event, this)'>
&nbsp;&nbsp;19 
But he himself turned again from the quarries that <i>were</i> by Gilgal, and said, I have a secret <sup>a</sup><a href="judg/3/19a" mark="a" type="D" title="OR message.">errand</a> unto thee, O king: who said, Keep silence.  And all that stood by him went out from him.
</div>
</div>
<div class="verse"><a name="20"></a>
<div id="judg/3/20" onclick='return toggleMarked(event, this)'>
&nbsp;&nbsp;20 
And Ehud came unto him; and he was sitting in a summer parlour, which he had for himself alone.  And Ehud said, I have a message from God unto thee.  And he arose out of <i>his</i> seat.
</div>
</div>
<div class="verse"><a name="21"></a>
<div id="judg/3/21" onclick='return toggleMarked(event, this)'>
&nbsp;&nbsp;21 
And Ehud put forth his left hand, and took the dagger from his right thigh, and thrust it into his belly:
</div>
</div>
<div class="verse"><a name="22"></a>
<div id="judg/3/22" onclick='return toggleMarked(event, this)'>
&nbsp;&nbsp;22 
And the <sup>a</sup><a href="judg/3/22a" mark="a" type="D" title="OR handle.">haft</a> also went in after the blade; and the fat closed upon the blade, so that he could not draw the dagger out of his belly; and the dirt came out.
</div>
</div>
<div class="verse"><a name="23"></a>
<div id="judg/3/23" onclick='return toggleMarked(event, this)'>
&nbsp;&nbsp;23 
Then Ehud went forth through the porch, and shut the doors of the <sup>a</sup><a href="judg/3/23a" mark="a" type="P" title="HEB upper, or roof, chamber.">parlour</a> upon him, and locked them.
</div>
</div>
<div class="verse"><a name="24"></a>
<div id="judg/3/24" onclick='return toggleMarked(event, this)'>
&nbsp;&nbsp;24 
When he was gone out, his servants came; and when they saw that, behold, the doors of the parlour <i>were</i> locked, they said, Surely he covereth his feet in his summer chamber.
</div>
</div>
<div class="verse"><a name="25"></a>
<div id="judg/3/25" onclick='return toggleMarked(event, this)'>
&nbsp;&nbsp;25 
And they tarried till they were ashamed: and, behold, he opened not the doors of the parlour; therefore they took a key, and opened <i>them:</i> and, behold, their lord <i>was</i> fallen down dead on the earth.
</div>
</div>
<div class="verse"><a name="26"></a>
<div id="judg/3/26" onclick='return toggleMarked(event, this)'>
&nbsp;&nbsp;26 
And Ehud escaped while they tarried, and passed beyond the quarries, and escaped unto Seirath.
</div>
</div>
<div class="verse"><a name="27"></a>
<div id="judg/3/27" onclick='return toggleMarked(event, this)'>
&nbsp;&nbsp;27 
And it came to pass, when he was come, that he blew a trumpet in the mountain of Ephraim, and the children of Israel went down with him from the mount, and he before them.
</div>
</div>
<div class="verse"><a name="28"></a>
<div id="judg/3/28" onclick='return toggleMarked(event, this)'>
&nbsp;&nbsp;28 
And he said unto them, Follow after me: for the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span> hath delivered your enemies the Moabites into your hand.  And they went down after him, and took the fords of Jordan toward Moab, and suffered not a man to pass over.
</div>
</div>
<div class="verse"><a name="29"></a>
<div id="judg/3/29" onclick='return toggleMarked(event, this)'>
&nbsp;&nbsp;29 
And they slew of Moab at that time about ten thousand men, all <sup>a</sup><a href="judg/3/29a" mark="a" type="P" title="HEB fat, or hardy.">lusty</a>, and all men of valour; and there escaped not a man.
</div>
</div>
<div class="verse"><a name="30"></a>
<div id="judg/3/30" onclick='return toggleMarked(event, this)'>
&nbsp;&nbsp;30 
So <sup>a</sup><a href="judg/3/30a" mark="a" type="A" title="2 Kgs. 3: 18.">Moab</a> was <sup>b</sup><a href="judg/3/30b" mark="b" type="A" title="Ex. 14: 30 (1-30); Judg. 10: 11 (11-12).">subdued</a> that day under the hand of Israel.  And the land had rest <sup>c</sup><a href="judg/3/30c" mark="c" type="D" title="OR eighty.">fourscore</a> years.
</div>
</div>
<div class="verse"><a name="31"></a>
<div id="judg/3/31" onclick='return toggleMarked(event, this)'>
&nbsp;&nbsp;31 
&#182; And after him was Shamgar the son of Anath, which slew of the Philistines six hundred men with an ox goad: and he also delivered Israel.
</div>
</div>
